Story of the Penal Times
18th May 1938
Long ago there was a man in Ballyheane who dreamt on Christmas night that Mass was going to be read the next morning in a field behind Connell’s house in Prizon. He liked to hear Mass on Christmas morning and he left his house very early that morning.
When he came to Prizon the priest was reading the Mass and the people thought he was a stranger. After the Mass the priest asked him why did he come and when the man told him what happened him the priest told him never to do such a thing again.
“INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo”